JETBLUE AIRWAYS CORP

We report our financial results in accordance with GAAP; however, we present certain non-GAAP financial measures in this Report. Non-GAAP financial measures are financial measures that are derived from the consolidated financial statements, but that are not presented in accordance with GAAP. We present these non-GAAP financial measures because we believe they provide useful supplemental information that enables a meaningful comparison of our results to others in the airline industry and our prior year results. Investors should consider these non-GAAP financial measures in addition to, and not as a substitute for, our financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. Further, our non-GAAP information may be different from the non-GAAP information provided by other companies. The information below provides an explanation of each non-GAAP financial measure presented in this Report and shows a reconciliation of each such non-GAAP financial measure to its most directly comparable GAAP financial measure.

Operating Expenses, excluding Fuel and Related Taxes, Other Non-Airline Operating Expenses, and Special Items (“Operating Expenses ex-fuel”) and Operating Expense ex-fuel per Available Seat Mile ex-fuel (“CASM ex-fuel”)

Operating Expense per Available Seat Mile (“CASM”) is a common metric used in the airline industry. Our CASM for the relevant periods are summarized in the table below. We exclude aircraft fuel and related taxes, operating expenses related to other non-airline businesses, such as JetBlue Ventures and JetBlue Travel Products, and special items from total operating expenses to determine Operating Expenses ex-fuel, which is a non-GAAP financial measure, and we exclude the same items from CASM to determine CASM ex-fuel, which is also a non-GAAP financial measure. We believe the impact of these special items distorts our overall trends and that our metrics are more comparable with the presentation of our results excluding such impact.

Special items for 2023 include Spirit costs and union contract costs.

Special items for 2022 included Spirit costs, union contract costs and Embraer E190 fleet transition costs.

Special items for 2021 include contra-expenses recognized on the utilization of federal grants received under various payroll support programs, contra-expenses recognized on the Employee Retention Credits provided by the CARES Act, and union contract costs.

We believe that Operating Expenses ex-fuel and CASM ex-fuel are useful for investors because they provide investors the ability to measure our financial performance excluding items that are beyond our control, such as fuel costs, which are subject to many economic and political factors, as well as items that are not related to the generation of an available seat mile, such as operating expense related to certain non-airline businesses and special items. We believe these non-GAAP measures are more indicative of our ability to manage airline costs and are more comparable to measures reported by other major airlines.

The table below provides a reconciliation of our total operating expenses (“GAAP measure”) to Operating Expenses ex-fuel, and our CASM to CASM ex-fuel for the periods presented.

With respect to JetBlue’s CASM ex-fuel guidance, we are unable to provide a reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measure to GAAP CASM, the most directly comparable GAAP measure, because the quantification of certain excluded items reflected in the CASM ex-fuel guidance cannot be calculated or predicted at this time without unreasonable efforts. The reconciling information that is unavailable would include a forward-looking range of financial performance measures beyond our control, such as fuel costs, which are subject to many economic and political factors. For the same reasons, we are unable to address the probable significance of the unavailable information, which could have a potentially unpredictable and potentially significant impact on our future GAAP financial results.

Operating Expense, Adjusted Operating Margin, Income (Loss) before Taxes, Adjusted Pre-tax Margin, Net Income (Loss) and Earnings (Loss) per Share, excluding Special Items and Net Gain (Loss) on Investments

Our GAAP results in the applicable periods were impacted by credits and charges that are deemed special items.

Special items for 2023 include Spirit costs and union contract costs.

Special items for 2022 included Spirit costs, union contract costs and Embraer E190 fleet transition costs.

Special items for 2021 include contra-expenses recognized on the utilization of federal grants received under various payroll support programs, contra-expenses recognized on the Employee Retention Credits provided by the CARES Act, and union contract costs.

Certain net gains and losses on our investments were also excluded from our 2023, 2022 and 2021 non-GAAP results.

We believe the impact of these items distort our overall trends and that our metrics are more comparable with the presentation of our results excluding the impact of these items. The table below provides a reconciliation of our GAAP reported amounts to the non-GAAP amounts excluding the impact of these items for the periods presented.

Adjusted Debt to Capitalization Ratio

Adjusted debt to capitalization ratio is a non-GAAP financial measure which we believe is relevant in assessing the Company's overall debt profile. Adjusted debt includes aircraft operating lease liabilities, in addition to total debt and finance lease obligations. Adjusted capitalization represents total equity plus adjusted debt. Investors should consider this non-GAAP financial measure in addition to, and not as a substitute for, our financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP.

Glossary of Airline terminology

Airline terminology used in this section and elsewhere in this Report:

•Aircraft utilization -The average number of block hours operated per day per aircraft for the total fleet of aircraft.

•Available seat miles -The number of seats available for passengers multiplied by the number of miles the seats are flown.

•Average fare -The average one-way fare paid per flight segment by a revenue passenger.

•Average fuel cost per gallon -Total aircraft fuel costs, including fuel taxes and effective portion of fuel hedging, divided by the total number of fuel gallons consumed.

•Average stage length -The average number of miles flown per flight.

•Load factor -The percentage of aircraft seating capacity actually utilized, calculated by dividing revenue passenger miles by available seat miles.

•Operating expense per available seat mile -Operating expenses divided by available seat miles.

•Operating expense per available seat mile, excluding fuel -Operating expenses, less aircraft fuel, other non-airline expenses, and special items, divided by available seat miles.

•Operating revenue per available seat mile -Operating revenues divided by available seat miles.

•Passenger revenue per available seat mile -Passenger revenue divided by available seat miles.

•Revenue passengers -The total number of paying passengers flown on all flight segments.

•Revenue passenger miles -The number of miles flown by revenue passengers.

•Yield per passenger mile -The average amount one passenger pays to fly one mile.